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PDC Center for High Performance Computing

How PDC facilitates research

PDC provides high-performance computing (HPC) services for academic and business/industrial research and also develops software to utilise HPC systems. PDC's services include HPC systems for performing computations and simulations (as well as pre- and post-processing of data), short- and long-term data storage, cloud facilities and assistance for researchers from application and systems experts.

Overview of HPC services PDC offers to support research

  • CPU- and GPU-supercomputing via Dardel , the NAISS HPE Cray EX supercomputer system at PDC for academic research  and industry R&D
  • Cloud service  (currently being established and expected to be available towards the autumn of 2024)
  • Storage and data management services , including facilities for long-term archiving
  • Expert support  for
    • application tuning and scaling in a number of disciplines (including fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, computational chemistry, bioinformatics, and neuroinformatics)
    • using various NAISS systems (including Dardel and the Swedish share of the LUMI  system in Finland)

Development of research software at PDC

PDC participates in the development of several codes that are widely used for research:

  • GROMACS
  • Neko
  • UppASD
  • VeloxChem
  • VIAMD

HPC training from PDC to help you achieve your research goals

  • PDC offers a comprehensive education and training program  with the flagship being the PDC Summer School . Held annually, the school offers an introduction to high performance computing for local and international students and researchers (both from academia and the commercial sector).
  • PDC also runs an ongoing programme of seminars/webinars  on topics of interest for HPC, with invited speakers from all over the world.
  • Staff from PDC are involved with various HPC courses  that are offered at KTH and at other Swedish academic institutions. PDC also contributes computing resources for many university courses  at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Projects PDC participates in to support researchers using HPC

PDC participates in European and local HPC infrastructure projects that support researchers by providing HPC resources, training or other assistance or by developing code and techniques for utilising pre-exascale and upcoming exascale HPC systems.

  • PDC coordinates four EuroHPC centres of excellence: the BioExcel  Centre of Excellence for Biomolecular Research, the Centre of Excellence for Exascale CFD ( CEEC ), the EXCELLERAT  Centre of Excellence for Engineering Applications and the Plasma Exascale-Performance Simulation Centre of Excellence ( Plasma-PEPSC ).

  • PDC takes part in various European projects, such as CodeRefinery, eBRAINS, the eResearch Persistent Identifier Consortium (ePIC), and the European-level HPC Support project EPICURE.

  • PDC contributes to Nordic and Swedish projects that support research using HPC, such as the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) and the Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC).

  • PDC collaborates with various Swedish and European companies (such as Scania) to assist their use of HPC for industry R&D.